Feeling guilty

In Monday's post about R's resignation, I neglected to mention that he asked me to keep the information to myself. Well, yesterday I might have accidentally let something slip on the subject to my boss, who, by coincidence, was having lunch with one of the Business managers.

It appears that he told the Business manager, who told his boss - and the rest of their office, and the news reached the ears of the guy in charge of the business-end of the Condor project. He is now very unhappy that R is still in the office, given his knowledge of commercially sensitive information about the project.

I am feeling really guilty about it, but there's not much I can do about it now. I don't see why he should go on 'gardening leave', since he is not going to learn anything new about it between now and the day his notice is up and he leaves for good. On the contrary, he might be able to assist us further.

I hate feeling guilty. I don't screw up often, but when I do, it doesn't feel nice.